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Joel Winarske ha scritto:

>>So, does this hardware byte swap solve all endian problems?  Can you use
>>the Ethernet MAC chip without changes to the code?
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>The byte swapping of bus high/low bytes only makes bus endianess happy.  You
>still need to concern yourself with CPU endianess of code.
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Yes and this is all needed.

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>written targeting a little endian CPU there should be no problem.  Possibly
>if code targeted a big endian CPU there may be no issues, but depends on the
>code.  Computer networks are big endian, and endianess issues related to
>network byte order may only show up closer to the application layer.  It all
>depends on the code.
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Joel, all data related to ethernet level is endiness corrected by 
writing to the mac chip and this solves the hw chip interfacing problem 
that was the original question.

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